My BFF and I always called one of our buddies at work VD (her initials)... Not behind her back or in a catty way, that's just what we called her, she laughed about it, she (VD) has our same sense of humor.

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Once in a while you get your delight, in the strangest of faces if you look at it right...

I have a friend who has a double first name, with the initials MF. Which many of us call her. She told a funny story about when she was in Ireland, visiting family, and a relative, a priest no less, wanted to know why calling her by her initials wasn/t really polite!

Another one is a college near where I went to school, in Baltimore. It is (or was) the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, an all women's Catholic school.

If you take the bolded letters and make a word, you get a certain form of scrabble-protection. Which we always thought was hilarious!

My BFF and I always called one of our buddies at work VD (her initials)... Not behind her back or in a catty way, that's just what we called her, she laughed about it, she (VD) has our same sense of humor.

I had a coworker whose initials were ED, and we worked in a dr's office. There was some joking as to what it stood for but she was one of the people joking about it so it worked out well.

I remember joking when Three Musketeers came out in the 90's, with Charlie Sheen, Oliver Platt, Chris O'Donnell and Kiefer Sutherland, and then there was that song sung by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting. I didn't even think of it till a friend pointed out the bolded initials. Haven't been able to look at it the same way since. *snicker*

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Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. Be cheerful, strive to be happy. -Desiderata

I have a friend with the initials V.D. She was helping a friend of hers out with some business paperwork. He told her, "Initial that so I know you dealt with it." Her response: "I don't put my initials on anything -- would you?"

Then there's the abbreviation for Save the Date we see here on Ehell a lot: "I got an STD from my sister."

My initials are B.S. I have fun with that sometimes. I used to write a column for my organization's newsletter and I called it "A little B.S." Once I got a Publishers Clearinghouse mailing that said on the front, "Someone with these initials could be a winner!" with an arrow pointing to "B.S." Yeah, truth in advertising!

Dan Rather claims his alma mater had to change its name when students started wearing shirts with the initials -- Sam Houston Institute for Teachers. Not sure I believe that, though.

I have an aunt whose (maiden name) initials were M.E. She used to sign something out at the library using her initials instead of her name, and the librarians got so mad at "whoever keeps signing things 'me'!"

There used to be company near my place of employement named "PMS". I can't remember what the letters stood for, but honestly, most of the people who worked there where grouchy cranks, so the name fit perfectly.Sadly, they changed it. Probably after one too many jokes.